.TH DVBLAST "1" "April 2012" "DVBlast 2.2" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
DVBlast \- Simple and powerful dvb streaming application
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dvblast
[\fI-q\fR] [\fI-c <config_file>\fR] [\fI-r <remote_socket>\fR] [\fI-t <ttl>\fR] [\fI-o <SSRC_IP>\fR]
[\fI-i <RT_priority>\fR] [\fI-a <adapter>\fR] [\fI-n <frontend_number>\fR] [\fI-y <ca_number>\fR] [\fI-S <diseqc>\fR] [\fI-k <uncommitted port>\fR]
[\fI-f <frequency>\fR] [\fI-D <src_host>[:<src_port>][[@<src_mcast>][:<port>]][/<opts>]\fR] [\fI-A <ASI_adapter>\fR]
[\fI-s <symbol_rate>\fR] [\fI-v <0|13|18>\fR] [\fI-p\fR] [\fI-b <bandwidth>\fR] [\fI-I <inversion>\fR]
[\fI-F <fec_inner>\fR] [\fI-m <modulation>\fR] [\fI-R <rolloff>\fR] [\fI-P <pilot>\fR] [\fI-K <fec_lp>\fR]
[\fI-G <guard_interval>\fR] [\fI-H <hierarchy>\fR] [\fI-X <transmission>\fR] [\fI-O <lock_timeout>\fR]
[\fI-u\fR] [\fI-w\fR] [\fI-U\fR] [\fI-L <latency>\fR] [\fI-E <retention>\fR] [\fI-d <dest_IP>[<:port>][/<opts>]\fR]
[\fI-z\fR] [\fI-C\fR] [\fI-e\fR] [\fI-M <network_name>\fR] [\fI-N <network_ID>\fR] [\fI-T\fR] [\fI-j <system_charset>\fR]
[\fI-W\fR] [\fI-Y\fR] [\fI-l\fR] [\fI-g <logger ident>\fR] [\fI-Z <mrtg_file>\fR] [\fI-V\fR] [\fI-h\fR]
[\fI-0 pid_mapping\fR] [\fI-1 <mis_id>\fR] [\fI-2 <size>\fR] [\fI-5 <DVBS|DVBS2|DVBC_ANNEX_A|DVBT|ATSC>\fR]
[\fI-J <DVB_charset>\fR] [\fI-B <provider_name>\fR] [\fI-Q <quit_timeout>\fR] [\fI-x <text|xml>\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
DVBlast is a simple and powerful streaming application based on the linux-dvb
API. It opens a DVB device, tunes it, places PID filters, configures a CAM
module, and demultiplexes the packets to several RTP outputs.

DVBlast is designed to be the core of a custom IRD or CID, based on a PC with
Linux-supported DVB cards.

DVBlast does not do any kind of processing on the elementary streams, such as
transcoding or remultiplexing. it does not stream from plain
files, only DVB devices. If you were looking for these features, switch to VLC.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-adapter\fR <adapter>
Address of the adapter
.TP
\fB\-A\fR, \fB\-\-asi\-adapter\fR
Read packets from an ASI adapter (0-n). If support for Deltacast ASI cards is
compiled in, prefix the adapter number with "deltacast:" to select a Deltacast
input. Deltacast inputs are numbered as (100 * card number) + channel number.
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-bandwidth\fR <bandwidth>
Frontend bandwidth
.TP
\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-provider-name\fR <name>
Service provider name to declare in the SDT. If you want to change
provider name per output use /srvprovider= output option in the config
file.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-config\-file\fR <config file>
Use the given configuration file
.TP
\fB\-C\fR, \fB\-\-dvb-compliance\fR
Pass through or build the mandatory DVB tables
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-duplicate\fR <dest IP:port>
Duplicate all received packets to a given destination
.TP
\fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-rtp\-input\fR
Read packets from a multicast address instead of a DVB card
.TP
\fB\-W\fR, \fB\-\-emm\-passthrough\fR
Enable EMM pass through (CA system data)
.TP
\fB\-Y\fR, \fB\-\-ecm\-passthrough\fR
Enable ECM pass through (CA program data)
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-epg\-passthrough\fR
Enable EPG pass through (EIT data)
.TP
\fB\-E\fR, \fB\-\-retention\fR <retention>
Maximum retention allowed between input and output (default: 40 ms)
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-frequency\fR <frequency>
Frontend frequency. If '\-' is specified instead of a numeric value,
the frontend will be not be tuned by dvblast and you should use external
tuning tool (szap) to tune it.
.TP
\fB\-8\fR, \fB\-\-lnb\-type\fR universal\|old\-sky
Choose LNB type. Default: 'universal' - Universal LNB ("Astra" LNB)
.TP
\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-fec\-inner\fR <FEC>
Forward Error Correction used by satellite (FEC Inner)
.br
DVB-S2 0|12|23|34|35|56|78|89|910|999 (default auto: 999)
.TP
\fB\-G\fR, \fB\-\-guard\fR <interval>
DVB-T guard interval
.br
DVB-T 32 (1/32)|16 (1/16)|8 (1/8)|4 (1/4)|-1 (auto, default)
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Print the help message
.TP
\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-hierarchy\fR <hierarchy>
DVB-T hierarchy (0, 1, 2, 4 or -1 auto, default)
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-priority\fR <RT priority>
Real time priority
.TP
\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-inversion\fR <inversion>
Inversion (-1 auto, 0 off, 1 on)
.TP
\fB\-j\fR, \fB\-\-system-charset\fR <charset>
Character set used for printing messages (default UTF-8)
.TP
\fB\-J\fR, \fB\-\-dvb-charset\fR <charset>
Character set used in output DVB tables (default ISO-8859-1)
.TP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-uncommitted\fR <uncommitted port>
Port number for uncommitted DiSEqC switch (0: no uncommitted DiSEqC swtich, 1\-16)
.TP
\fB\-K\fR, \fB\-\-fec-lp\fR
DVB-T low priority FEC (default auto)
.TP
\fB\-5\fR, \fB\-\-delsys\fR <delivery_system>
Select delivery system. Possible values: DVBS|DVBS2|DVBC_ANNEX_A|DVBT|ATSC (default guessed)
.TP
\fB\-1\fR, \fB\-\-multistream\-id\fR <stream_id>
Set stream ID for multistream capable transponders. Value: 0-2147483648 (default: 0)
.TP
\fB\-\-multistream\-id\-pls\-mode\fR <ROOT|GOLD|COMBO>
Set PLS mode used in multistream-id calculation. Possible values are: ROOT GOLD and COMBO (default: ROOT).
If this option is set multistream-id option is overwritten.
.TP
\fB\-\-multistream\-id\-pls\-code\fR <0-262143>
Set PLS code used in multistream-id calculation. Possible values are in range 0..262143 (default: 0).
If this option is set multistream-id option is overwritten.
.TP
\fB\-\-multistream\-id\-is\-id\fR <0-255>
Set IS id used in multistream-id calculation. Possible values are in range 0..255 (default: 0).
If this option is set multistream-id option is overwritten.
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-logger\fR
Send messages to syslog instead of stderr
.TP
\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-logger-ident\fR <logger_ident>
Set the program name that will appear in syslog (default: dvblast /the executable name/).
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-latency\fR <latency>
Maximum latency allowed between input and output (default: 100 ms)
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-modulation\fR
Modulation
.br
DVB-C  qpsk|qam_16|qam_32|qam_64|qam_128|qam_256 (default qam_auto)
.br
DVB-T  qam_16|qam_32|qam_64|qam_128|qam_256 (default qam_auto)
.br
DVB-S2 qpsk|psk_8|apsk_16|apsk_32 (default legacy DVB-S)
.TP
\fB\-M\fR, \fB\-\-network-name\fR <name>
DVB network name to declare in the NIT
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-frontend\-number\fR <frontend number>
The frontend number
.TP
\fB\-y\fR, \fB\-\-ca\-number\fR <ca_dev_number>
CA device number. Default: 0
.TP
\fB\-2\fR, \fB\-\-dvr\-buf\-size\fR <size>
Sets the size of the DVR TS buffer in bytes.
.TP
\fB\-N\fR, \fB\-\-network-id\fR <ID>
DVB network ID to declare in the NIT
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-rtp-output\fR <SSRC IP>
RTP output IP
.TP
\fB\-O\fR, \fB\-\-lock-timeout\fR <timeout>
Timeout for the lock operation (in ms)
.TP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-force\-pulse\fR
Force 22kHz pulses for high-band selection (DVB-S)
.TP
\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-pilot\fR
DVB-S2 Pilot (-1 auto, 0 off, 1 on)
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
Be quiet (less verbosity, repeat or use number for even quieter)
.TP
\fB\-Q\fR, \fB\-\-quit-timeout\fR <delay>
When locked, quit after this delay (in ms), or after the first lock timeout
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-remote\-socket\fR <remote socket>
Remote socket to use
.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-rolloff\fR <rolloff>
Rolloff value to use
.br
DVB-S2 35=0.35|25=0.25|20=0.20|0=AUTO (default: 35)
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-symbol\-rate\fR <symbol rate>
Symbole rate
.TP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-diseqc\fR <diseqc>
Satellite number for diseqc (0: no diseqc, 1\-4, A or B)
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-ttl\fR <ttl>
Time-To-Live of the multicast stream
.TP
\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-unique\-ts\-id\fR
Generate unique TS ID for each program
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-budget\-mode\fR
Turn on budget mode (no hardware PID filtering)
.TP
\fB\-U\fR, \fB\-\-udp\fR
Use raw UDP rather than RTP (required by some IPTV set top boxes)
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-voltage\fR <0|13|18>
Voltage to apply to the LNB (QPSK)
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Only display the version
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-select-pmts\fR
Set a PID filter on all PMTs. This option is automatically enabled
when config file is used. To disable setting PMT filters in case of
config file is used, add \-\-select-pmts \fBafter\fR \-\-config\-file <file>
parameter.
.TP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-print\fR
Print interesting events on stdout in a given format
.TP
\fB\-X\fR, \fB\-\-transmission\fR <transmission>
DVB-T transmission (2, 4, 8 or -1 auto, default
.TP
\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-any\-type\fR
pass through all ESs from the PMT, of any type
.TP
\fB\-Z\fR, \fB\-\-mrtg-file\fR <mrtg_file>
Every 10 seconds log statistics in <mrtg_file>. The file has 4 numbers in it
and the format is: <passed_bytes> <error_packets> <packets_with_seq_errors> <scrambled_packets>
.TP
\fB\-0\fR, \fB\-\-pidmap\fR <pmtpid,audiopid,videopid,spupid>
Map the elementary stream pids to the values given for all elementary
streams. Where there are multiple audio pids, then these will be mapped to
audiopid, auiopid+1, audiopid +2 and so on.
.SH SEE ALSO
Read the README file for more information about the configuration of dvblast.
.SH AUTHORS
Writen by Marian Ďurkovič, Andy Gatward, Christophe Massiot and Jean-Paul Saman
.SH LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.
